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Newspaper Page Text2:30 8:20 8:20 C I N E M A S for Feb 10-17 A R T 5:00 7:00 9:00 4:45 6:30 5:15 8:00 5:20 8:00 12:30 4:45 6:30 2:40 5:20 8:00 8:20 10:45 8:20 10:45 FOUR LIONS 8:20 8:20 4:45 6:30 4:45 6:30 4:45 6:30 5:20 8:00 5:20 8:00 BY MOLLY TEMPLETON PG 4:45 6:30 ANOTHER YEAR 5:20 8:00 movies R 8:20 The Illusionist 4:45 6:30 2:40 5:20 8:00 Feb 17 Feb 16 Feb 15 Feb 14 Feb 13 Feb 12 Feb 11 Feb 10 THU FRI SAT SUN MON TUES WED THU PG-13 5:20 8:00 TRUE ROMANCE Happy Valentine’s Day! 11:00 pm 11:00 pm 10:30 pm 10:30 pm R Forbidden Fruit Presents 17+ Jean-Michel Basquiat rocky horror THE RADIANT 11:00 pm 11:00 pm CHILD 11:45 11:00 noon Sat/Sun 492 East 13 th 686-2458 NR Coming soon: follow us! 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Cinéarts " THE KING’S SPEECH R 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:05 BLACK SWAN R 12:00, 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Uneven Four Lions skewers band of bungling terrorists FOUR LIONS: Directed by Chris Morris. Written by Chris Morris, Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong. Cinematography, Lol Crawley. Editor, Billy Sneddon. Starring Riz Ahmed, Arsher Ali, Nigel Lindsay, Kayvan Novak and Adeel Akhtar. Alamo Drafthouse Films, 2010. R. 102 minutes. 44411 F OAK STREET WILLAMETTE STREET Woodfi eld Station Men with Bombs JUST GO WITH IT (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.(1130 1230 215) 420 500 725 745 1010 1030 Sun.(1230 215) 420 500 725 745 1010 1030 THE EAGLE (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1200 245) 700 945 THE ROOMMATE (PG-13) Fri.(210) 440 740 1025 Sat.(1155) 440 740 1025 Sun.(210 PM 440 PM) 740 PM OC & DA: THE ROOMMATE (PG-13) Fri.(1155 AM) Sat.(210 PM) Sun.(1155 AM) 1025 PM SANCTUM IN REALD 3D - EVENT PRICING (R) - ID REQ'D ★ Fri. - Sun.(1140 235) 650 1015 THE MECHANIC (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(1235) 505 735 1020 NO STRINGS ATTACHED (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(1215) 410 705 950 THE DILEMMA (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1205 PM) 1005 PM TRUE GRIT (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(1150 225) 455 750 1035 THE FIGHTER (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(1210 255) 640 925 THE KING'S SPEECH (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(1225) 405 655 935 127 HOURS (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sun.(240 PM) 720 PM JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY IN REALD 3D - EVENT PRICE (G) ★ Fri. - Sun.(200) 450 730 1005 GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) Fri. - Sun.(210) 440 700 920 JUST GO WITH IT (PG-13) ★ THE ROOMMATE (PG-13) Fri. - Sun.(140) 430 710 950 Fri. - Sun.(150) 420 650 930 our Lions sounds pretty good on paper: A dark British farce about a bumbling would-be terrorist cell with a screenplay boasting one of the writers of the sharp In the Loop, last year’s invective-laden political satire. The poster displays 15 matching blurbs, all of which proclaim Four Lions “funny.” And it is, in ﬁ ts and starts that play out like loosely connected sketches rather than pieces of a coherent whole. When Chris Morris’ ﬁ lm is funny, it’s very, very funny, provided you’re inclined to laugh at a stream of colorful insults and the kind of idiotic maneuvers that are likely to get would-be terrorists killed at their own inept hands. The would-be terrorists are generally as dumb as a box of rocks. They argue about the size of a gun in one member’s hands as they shoot a video; the resulting footage is too embarrassing for Omar (Riz Ahmed), the skittish leader, to show his wife without making excuses. (They’re outtakes, he explains awkwardly.) They want to blow things up, but there’s some dissent as to what the most appropriate target might be. Barry (Nigel Lindsay), a convert to Islam, would like to raze a mosque in hopes of radicalizing the moderates. Omar would rather not, but he can’t pin down his goals beyond being sure their target should be something more important than a pharmacy. The brains and the heart of the operation, Omar is too smart to be following this destructive path but too sure it’s the right thing to do to consider any alternatives. Omar uses characters from The Lion King to explain himself to his son and refuses to control his wife, but his political side is about as sophisticated as that of a college freshman who’s just realized the crushing fact that much of the world isn’t fair. Which, to be fair, is part of the ﬁ lm’s point — but mostly, Four Lions’ point is more soft than sharp. As a loose, winking take on the idea that fanatics are as likely to be bungling nincompoops as evil masterminds, Morris’ ﬁ lm has its moments. Explosives and weapons lend themselves to more than a few snatches of sly slapstick, and Omar’s position as the only faintly intelligent man among a posse of imbeciles (particularly Kayvan Novak as the endearingly dumb Waj) gives him the chance to let ﬂ y with some truly colorful insults. The plain audacity of making a comedy about a gaggle of hapless terrorists gives Morris and his writers a little wiggle room, but they play too loose with the tone, which starts to seesaw wildly toward the end. Four Lions develops as a series of unfortunate and often deeply, horribly funny events that become more and more unfortunate and less and less funny as the ﬁ lm draws to a close (one incident with a Wookie costume notwithstanding). The message is clear — even these idiots can effectively blow things up — but the ﬁ lm stumbles as it shifts from farce into something darker and heavier. More a gentle poke in the ribs (with a few belly laughs) than anything approaching a skewering (of terrorists, of the culture they ostensibly are working against), Four Lions suffers from the same uncertainty that infects its characters: No one quite knows exactly what they’re on about, but eventually, something’s sure to explode. ew Four Lions opens Friday, Feb. 11, at the Bijou. 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